streetcar named desire and macbeth critical lens essay

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Rabiha Sabir November 14, 2013

Critical Lens Essay

There are many situations in life which are related to reality and they can be illusional because of your own perspective. a quote that supports this is “ Reality is that which, when you stop believing it, doesn’t go away”. This quote explains that reality is something that even if you don’t believe in it or if you don’t think its true it still doesn’t go away. You can’ deny the fact that that fact is true no matter what. You can make a situation unreal just because of the way you think or you don’t want to face the truth. This quote also explains that you can’t deny the harshness of the truth by consoling yourself. Some…show more content…

She gets mixed up with all these men because she had a dark past about herself which was getting married to a boy named Allen who turned to be gay and then he shot himself when his life found out about this. She gets mixed up with all these men including a seventeen year old boy because she is running away from her past. She doesn’t want to face her past and thats why she became involved with everyone. A second example, is that Blanche’s brother in law rapes her in the end and she tells her sister about it. Her sister Stella doesn’t believe her and this becomes an emotional breakdown for her. This situation shows that Stella is living in a illusion that her husband is perfect when in reality he is not. Stella is living in an illusion because her husband always shows her that he loves when in fact he is shrewd from inside. The author’s use of symbolism in “A Streetcar Named Desire” connects to the quote “ Reality is that which, when you stop believing it, doesn’t go away” by showing how the characters are believing in something which does not exist, which has never happened.

The second piece of work which connects to the quote is “Macbeth” by William Shakespeare. Macbeth is a tragic play by William Shakespeare that shows a story of a king who kills everyone to get the throne. In this play, Macbeth meets the witches in the beginning and

A Streetcar Named Desire
In many modern day relationships between a man and a woman, there is usually a controlling figure that is dominant over the other. It may be women over man, man over women, or in what the true definition of a marriage is an equal partnership. In the play A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams Stanley is clearly the more dominant figure over Stella. Throughout the play there are numerous examples of the power he possesses of her. Williams portrays Stella as a…

A Streetcar Named Desire: Contextualising
Tennessee Williams uses ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ to relate to his
own personal life, echoes of his own life are present in the plot and
sub-plot of the play. The play is set during the era in which it was
written therefore it must have been easy for Williams to relate
characters to real life people. Also because this play is meant to be
as real to life as possible within the confines of the story means
that everyone who goes to watch the play will…

was directed by Elia Kazan and written by Tennessee Williams. It is about a southern bell by the name of Blanche Dubois who loses her father's plantation to a mortgage and travels to live in her sister's home in New Orleans by means of a streetcar called Desire. There she finds her sister living in a mess with a drunken bully husband, and the events that follow cause Blanche to step over the line of insanity and fall victim to life's harsh lessons.
The artistic intensions of the film were clearly…

Themes in A Streetcar Named Desire
A Streetcar Named Desire is a pessimistic work that is the “culmination of a view of life in which evil, or at least undiminished insensitivity, conquers throughout no matter what the protagonistic forces do”(Szeliski 69). In other words, sensitive individuals all meet a similar fate-crushed under the heels of those who lack sensitivity.
This play is about Blanche DuBois; therefore, the main themes of the drama concern her directly. In Blanche is seen…

A Streetcar Named Desire is a classic tragedy written by Tennessee Williams, which earned him the Pulitzer Prize as well as many other awards. This brilliant play explores many important themes and issues. The main recurring theme Williams explores to the readers is the conflict between fantasy and reality, honesty and lies. However, sexuality, violence, and social differences also shape the action of the plot, in which they contribute to the effect of the characters of the play. The three main characters…

Literatura: uma introdução by Terry Eagleton (1994), there is a chapter dedicated to psychoanalysis and I think that some of the topics referred to in that chapter need to be mentioned here before the most important symbols found in the play A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams are discussed.
One of the ideas discussed by Eagleton is that if after coming across psychoanalysis for the first time you happen to like it, it will probably become a useful tool to help you understand literature…

A Streetcar Named Desire Essay
Reality vs. Illusion
In Tennessee William’s masterful play, A Streetcar Named Desire, the reader meets a middle – aged woman by the name of Blanche DuBois. Blanche lives in her own faerie tale world, one of a young, beautiful debutante, surrounded by admirers, and loved by all whom she encounters. In reality, Blanche is an aging woman who cannot cope with the actualities of life. She makes up wild stories, and when Stanley Kowalski, her brother – in – law…

The play A Streetcar Named Desire revolves around Blanche DuBois; therefore, the main theme of the drama concerns her directly. In Blanche is seen the tragedy of an individual caught between two worlds-the world of the past and the world of the present-unwilling to let go of the past and unable, because of her character, to come to any sort of terms with the present. The final result is her destruction. This process began long before her clash with Stanley Kowalski. It started with the death…

and by the fifties men had reassumed their more dominant role in society. People were finding new voices at this time by taking pre-existing forms and pushing the boundaries to re-voice established literary forms. Tennessee Williams wrote A Streetcar Named Desire around the time this reversal was occurring in American society. Williams was a homosexual from the deep south of America, and his play is about physical, emotional and sexual conflict. We also see a discourse about the qualities of an Old…

The Raw Power of A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams's play A Streetcar Named Desire contains more
within it's characters, situations, and story than appears on its surface.
As in many of Williams's plays, there is much use of symbolism and
interesting characters in order to draw in and involve the audience. The
plot of A Streetcar Named Desire alone does not captivate the audience. It
is Williams's brilliant and intriguing characters that make the reader…